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I reset the phone, then ran Malwarebytes which actually seemed to cause more ads and apps to install by themselves. Malwarebytes found malware installed in the android system which could not be removed. I called Assurance Wireless and they did a hard reset which caused me to lose use of my phone...

The steps I posted previously each only seemed to help give rid of the adware for a short while, if at all. I finally gave up and just did a factory reset a few minutes ago. I'm skeptical that will help though since there are so many complaints about the adware coming preinstalled on the phone.

I haven't had any ads on the phone since deleting the "sweet" app 4 days ago. At that time I also deleted some apps I had installed from Google Play just to be on the safe side. Another ad issue with this phone I was having since I first got it involved Chrome. Every time I launched Chrome...

I had no ads for several days after my last round of suspicious app deletions but this morning I had a new type of ad, it said "sweet" on the top bar, so I looked in my apps and found "sweet" and deleted it.

The ads were gone for several days after uninstalling "theme.translucent", but some different looking ads and notifications started showing up yesterday. One of the ads showed the app name "BackgroundServices", so I looked in my list of apps and found it in there, I know it wasn't there the last...

Disabling notifications for "theme.translucent" didn't get rid of the ads, so then I tried disabling some other unneeded apps completely and disabling notifications for several other apps, but the ads kept showing up. I was still noticing the top bar on the ads said "theme.translucent" so I...

I have the Adware problem also, the phone is fairly new, I didn't notice the ads until I installed a few apps from Google Play but I have a feeling the ads were already on the phone but set to not activate immediately so that unsuspecting customers would think it was their own fault. One thing I...